The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-25
SIGNS OF CHARACTER.
UNERRlNG INDICATIONS IN THE
MOUTH, NOSE, EYES AND EARS.


dictated.
''It is defense, but not an enviable
one,' said woman having the gift of
character reading in an uncommon degree.
Il wouldn't be seer or mind reader for
anything you could offer. It's bad enough
to see the character in ones face when you
want to like some new acquaintance unde-
servedly, who seems perfectly charming
and you want to be charmed, yet something
tells you it won't do. Am never deceived
Frankly, never but once in my life l
never met undesirable acquaintance, no
matter how we'll introduced, without dis
tinct impression that the person would
bring trouble to me- I've learned to be
very careful to respect the first instant's
reading of "a new face. The first sight con-
veys its real meaning to one who can read
it. Manners and different expressions may
tempt one to modify recant the first
opinion, but l have never done so without
life long regret.
II, too, knew such a repulsion at sight
for woman every one else took for an
angel and paragon. Knowing such
woman, | can understand Lady Byron
My acquaintance at last went insane with
the scandals of her own imagination AMI
many correct and highly placed women tip
the scale of balanced brain with vanity and
jealousy. The self esteem of our women is
fed and nourished into insanity. How did
1 know what she was. By two points which
never fail to show a false and cruel woman
-Overfull eyes, such as you see i'll some
pictures of the Virgin, supposed beautiful,
but which denote an ingram hypocrite, and
an immobile upper lip face with that
set of lip always betrays a false, PREACHER
Gus nature that lies without knowing it. A
pinched nose Is no surer sign OF meanness
than this dead lip of dangerous craft. One
woman who has made herself quite pronn
nent in New York newspaper mention for
twenty years is remarked for this feature.
You may watch her through sentence after
sentence without seeing any more play Of
the upper lip than if it were paralyzed
cut in marble, and her favorite gospel
heard by many friends was, If facts did
not agree with the effect she wanted to pro-
duce, much the worse for the facts
The more varied the features" says ons
author the more depressions and eleva
tions in the face, the greater the variety of
character exhibited. A smooth, small feat
ured unwrinkled face always discloses a
small, Unconditional, selfish character, Of
very small capacities. A mans real charac-
ter is spread all over him. The face sums
up the whole man. Rectitude of character
is known by the width of chin, as in the
faces of Washington and Isaac Newton;
also by the setting of the eye. Any eye of
tine line varies from tfutnIul
niticance, according to- its detection, from
the persons who would rather tell pleasant
untruth than be the bearers of harsh It'd
ings, to the artists in craft with eyes droop-
ing at the outer corners like those of the
fair Jesuit, the Empress Eugene. Firm
ness and tenacity of purpose are shown in
length of the lower jaw and chin, as i'll the
face of Anna Dickinson, which admirably
Illustrates this faculty.
The chin is the seat of strength of charac
ter, which depends on firm bone support.
Bone shows integrity, muscle more of the
atfectionate nature. The scientific physiog-
nomSt knows well how much such women
as Miss Dickinson and Miss Frances Willard
their success to a good honest, bony
system. The full, rolling under lip is a
sign of generosity and benevolence, as in
the portraits of Wherefore and Lincoln.
An upper lip, thick and red in the center,
shows large amative power and also muscu-
lar strength The round eye, like doves,
is an unfailing sign of large mating ability.
Almond shaped eyes prove promiscuous
love The upper lip, like Cupid's bow,
shows great tenderness and love for chill
dren, which is never found with a gloomy
or sad disposition. A friendly nature is
known by the fullness of the upper cheek.
a long upper lip shows self esteem, in the
faces of Bradlaugh, Herbert Spencer and
John g. Whittier. The most prominent
sign of modesty-which may consist with
large self esteem-is the groove in the center
of the upper lip.
The outward signs of force of character
are breadth of chest, wide mouth and nos
trils, high cheek bones, and relatively small
and wide head. Secretiveness is shown by
compressed and thin lips, and small mouth
if the lips are thin. Broad, fiat noses are
the signs of the quality. The large eyes and
mouth are evidence of volume of language
All orators have large mouths. Among
men of power and capacity secretiveness
and craft are never marked; they do not
need il. Caution is seen i'll the long nose.
Hope is strong when the septum middle
portion of the nose projects below the sides;
clearness of the skin and eyes is another sign.
When the septum is droopng at the tip, as
in Canova's face, or that of Mrs. Sitldons or
la Place. the faculty of analysis is large.
Ideality is known by width of the tip of the
nose, giving it IA square cut appearance,
in Byron, Irving, Nernet, Mrs. Stowe and
Il host of other authors and artists. Noses
high ami projecting at the tip show under
standing of human nature and love for it's
study. This il the nose for a physician.
All eminent doctors, naturalists and philoso-
pliers show this feature. 1t is the probing,
inquiring nose. Fullness of the sides of the
nose denote large constructive powers, as in
Morse and Ellison. The higher and broader
the bridge of the nose. the greater Is the
development of veneration. Self will is
shown by the height OF tie nose at its root.
All undeveloped races and faces are flat
here. Ii il more clearly developed in Eu-
ropean races than i'll Americans and gives
the plod,iing. persevering character often
observed among the former. Americans,
rule, Ito not dwell their undertake
ingS perSistently as Europeans, and show
more expression from the forehead TO the
nose. The sign of strong will Is marked in
the faces of Dante, Humboldt, Edwin Booth
Cryus W, Field, and G. p. Huntington.
Women Seldom have this sign large. Hori-
Zontal wriuklS across the top of the nose in
dictate Will and resolution. Persons success
ful Ill carrying forward great enterprises,
ike building railroads, laying telegraph
cables, founding and managing communi
ties. AMI all undert akinuS r,.Y,1irius